Tomas Espedal

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Tomas Espedal (2019)

Tomas Espedal (born November 12, 1961 in Bergen , Norway ) is a Norwegian author and university professor. He achieved great fame in Norway primarily for his stories on the borders of the novel and autobiography . Many of his stories also experiment with the genres essay , letter , diary and travelogue .

Life

Espedal grew up in Bergen and also studied there at the university. He then moved to Oslo for longer periods of life, later to Copenhagen, before finally returning as a successful writer to teach on the side himself.

As a university lecturer at the University of Bergen belonging write Academy of Arts , he taught in the late 1980s Karl Ove Knausgård , who was among the first graduates started school. His original book, Gehen: or the art of leading a wild and poetic life, made him so famous that he could no longer walk anonymously through the city undisturbed because too many people wanted to talk to him. From then on he mainly rode his bike into town. His book Bergeners from 2013, first published in German with the same title in 2018, is an anthology with prose, short stories and poetry by the author. In one of the stories, Tomas Espedal tells of the residents of the university town, the so-called "Bergeners", their peculiarities and habits.

In 2018, as always with him on Bokmål , he published the novel Elsken . In addition, the mostly black-clad author was portrayed in the documentary Jeg vil bo i mitt navn by director Lars Erlend Tubaas Øymo .

Tomas Espedal lives and works permanently in his hometown Bergen again. In this statistically rainiest city in the country, it is easy to work as a writer.

Awards

In 2009 he received both the Critic's Prize and the Gyldendal Prize for his short story Wider die Kunst (2009) . For Wider die Kunst (2009) he was awarded in the same year - as three years earlier for his book Gehen. Or the art of living a wild and poetic life (2006) - nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize. In 2011 he was awarded the Brageprisen for Against Nature (2011) . In the same year he was also awarded the Riksmålsforbundet literature prize, which the author refused. Tomas Espedal justified his decision by stating that he neither agreed with the language policy of the Riksmålsforbundet nor with the previous winners, namely André Bjerke and Jens Bjørneboe , from whom he distanced himself insofar as he did not want to be named in a row with them.

bibliography

  • In vill flukt av parfymer . (1988)
    • A wild escape from perfume . (Appearance of the German translation indefinitely.)
  • Jeg vil bo i mitt navn . (1990)
  • Hun and any . (1991)
  • Hotel Norge . (1995)
  • Blond (erindring) . (1996)
  • Biography (glemsel) . (1999)
  • Dagbok (epitafer) . (2003)
  • Brev (et forsøk) . (2005)
  • Gå. (Other arts å leve et vilt and poetisk liv) . Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo 2006
    • Go. Or the art of living a wild and poetic life . From the Norwegian by Paul Berf , Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-88221-551-9 . (Fifth edition 2017.)
  • Ly . Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo 2007.
  • Imot arts (notatbokene) . Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo 2009.
    • Against Art (The Notebooks) . Translated from the Norwegian by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95757-137-3 . (Also as Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 4752. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017).
  • Imot naturen (notatbokene) . Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo 2011.
    • Against nature (The Notebooks) . From the Norwegian by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel, Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-88221-188-7 . (Also as Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 4606. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015).
  • Bergeners . Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo 2013.
    • Bergeners . From the Norwegian by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel, Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95757-651-4 .
  • Året . Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo 2016.
    • The year . From the Norwegian by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel, Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95757-773-3 .
  • Elsken . Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo 2018.
    • Love . (Appearance of the German translation indefinitely.)

Web links

Commons : Tomas Espedal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On walking upright: About Tomas Espedals self-experiment , review in the magazine “Glanz und Elend”, accessed February 8, 2018
  2. ↑ a b The literary city of Bergen: A certain basic cloudiness , literary scene report by Andrea Gerk in Deutschlandfunk Kultur , published and accessed February 8, 2019
  3. ↑ Knut-Eirik Lindeblad: Redningsaksjonen in the Oslo daily newspaper Dagbladet from October 20, 2018 on pages 48-50 (Norwegian)
  4. ↑ Thrond Vernegg: Vet det bare ikke selv. Riksmålsforbundet , December 20, 2011, accessed February 5, 2016 (Norwegian).
personal data
SURNAME Espedal, Tomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian writer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergen , Norway